CSD 541 Midterm ACTUAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the components of language? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) Form: syntax,
morphology, phonology
2) Content: semantics
3) Use: pragmatics
What is the best way to measure language production? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Language Sample
Positive Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅adding something good
Negative Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅taking away something bad
What is poverty of stimulus? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Children are not exposed to a rich
enough language environment to acquire every feature of language
_____ vary across languages - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅parameters
_____ are constant across all languages, set in - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅principles
Linguistic _____ is a language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules that
govern a language... can never be measured - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅competence
Linguistic _____ is the linguistic knowledge in actual use.... can be measured - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅performance
3 levels of nodes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) mother
2) daughter
3) sisters to each other
, the ____ nodes represent the larger unit, and the ____ nodes represent its constituents -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅mother
daughter
Node labels provide 2 kinds of information: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) syntactic
category
2) level in the grammatical hierarchy
the hierarchical (nonlinear) view of nativism is needed to understand_____ - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅the principles/ innate core of language
Charles Yang has a less ___ view on nativism
Shifts the emphasis from universal grammar to ______ - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅radical
environment
Charles Yang takes into account _________ that fall out of regularities/rules (expressions that
make sense but cannot be diagrammed) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅idiosyncratic
expressions
According to nativism, how is language learned? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅through
innate principles and setting parameters
Nativism language learning mechanism: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Universal Grammar
Nativism's application to impairment: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅need to reset
parameters... figuring out what made them mis-set in the first place?
Founder of the language acquisition device - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Noam Chomsky
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the components of language? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) Form: syntax,
morphology, phonology
2) Content: semantics
3) Use: pragmatics
What is the best way to measure language production? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Language Sample
Positive Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅adding something good
Negative Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅taking away something bad
What is poverty of stimulus? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Children are not exposed to a rich
enough language environment to acquire every feature of language
_____ vary across languages - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅parameters
_____ are constant across all languages, set in - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅principles
Linguistic _____ is a language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules that
govern a language... can never be measured - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅competence
Linguistic _____ is the linguistic knowledge in actual use.... can be measured - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅performance
3 levels of nodes - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) mother
2) daughter
3) sisters to each other
, the ____ nodes represent the larger unit, and the ____ nodes represent its constituents -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅mother
daughter
Node labels provide 2 kinds of information: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) syntactic
category
2) level in the grammatical hierarchy
the hierarchical (nonlinear) view of nativism is needed to understand_____ - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅the principles/ innate core of language
Charles Yang has a less ___ view on nativism
Shifts the emphasis from universal grammar to ______ - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅radical
environment
Charles Yang takes into account _________ that fall out of regularities/rules (expressions that
make sense but cannot be diagrammed) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅idiosyncratic
expressions
According to nativism, how is language learned? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅through
innate principles and setting parameters
Nativism language learning mechanism: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Universal Grammar
Nativism's application to impairment: - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅need to reset
parameters... figuring out what made them mis-set in the first place?
Founder of the language acquisition device - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Noam Chomsky
